Center for Epidemiologic Research in Asia

Corresponding:miura@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp
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Staff and specialities

Director:
Katsuyuki MIURA, Professor

Vice-Directors:
Minoru HORIE, Professor
Yoshitaka MURAKAMI, Associate Professor

Special Contract Professors:
Hirotsugu UESHIMA
Robert ABBOTT

Special Contract Assistant-Professor:
Takashi HISAMATSU

Outline of the department

[Mission of CERA]
The newly opened CERA is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, 
Sports, Science and Technology budget for the 2012-2013 year and is the 
first research building as a base for epidemiological research in Japan.

The aims of CERA are
   "To create the base of epidemiological research in Asia, to 
  promote the leading-edge and international collaborative 
  epidemiological research of various diseases focused on 
  cardiovascular disease and diabetes, to improve education and 
  study in Shiga University of Medical Science and to contribute 
  to the development of medicine and epidemiology in Japan and 
  in the world."

[Goals]
The center was established in 2013 to promote the following two fields:

Research
The main areas of research to be conducted at CERA involve:
  1.International collaborative epidemiological research focused on Asia 
  2.Leading-edge epidemiological research based on local populations

Education
  By training epidemiologists specializing in the field of 
  lifestyle-related diseases, we aim to accomplish the following:

   1 Create epidemiologic data focused on cardiovascular disease and diabetes 
     for prevention of lifestyle-related diseases in Asian countries

   2 Offer training for both domestic and international students in our 
     graduate program

   3 Train specialists in epidemiological research to focus on 
     lifestyle-related diseases

   4 Utilize the most advanced techniques in epidemiological research to share 
     up-to-date information from Japan

   5 Promote new developments in cooperation with the industry to prevent 
     cardiovascular diseases and diabetes

   6 Communicate findings from our research in order to help adopt improved 
     health measurement tools, as well as to apply novel approaches to 
     lifestyle-related disease prevention in the Japanese population

   7 Provide continuing education for specialists in epidemiologic research, 
     especially in the field of lifestyle-related diseases within medical 
     institutions, companies and organizations

[Current Studies]
CERA is involved in the following studies:

   NIPPON DATA 80/90/2010 - long-term observational study of 20,000 
   subjects from a national nutrition survey

   EPOCH-JAPAN - pooled project of 200,000 individuals from several 
   cohort studies in Japan

   ERA JUMP - collaborative study for comparing the ethnic differences 
   in atherosclerosis

   SESSA - Shiga Epidemiological Study of Subclinical Atherosclerosis
 	
   Takashima Study
 	
   INTERMAP - international joint research on nutrition and blood pressure

   INTERLIPID - subset of INTERMAP, involving blood lipid levels in 
   Japanese men in Japan and in Hawaii

   APCSC - Asian Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

   Shiga Stroke Data Center
   Currently, we are compiling a database on incidence of stroke in 
   Shiga prefecture, Japan:

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